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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

The country where officials are using pen, paper and typewriters to govern after major cyber-attack

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The Polynesian country of Vanuatu has switched to typewriter, pen, paper, and yellow pages to run their newly-elected government, nearly a month after its parliament and public sector websites were knocked out in a cyber attack.

A malware attack earlier this month on government servers, emails and other online systems disrupted communication and coordination in the Pacific archipelago nation of about 315,000 people.

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